Charles B. Rangel Quotes
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
Rangel, Charles B. "Press Release on Immigration." Official House Website of Congressman Charles B. Rangel, U.S. House of Representatives.
This quotation became a very polarizing stimulus in the country with anti-immigration people using it in support of their program to restrict immigration and with liberals and Hispanic groups who saw the quotation as a discriminatory unfounded charge.
Historically, until recently there has been a migration from the South to other parts of the country. After legal segregation ended, the out migration slowed and by the end of the 20th century, people—including intellectuals began moving to the South. Generally, the vestiges of the anti intellectualism began to fade, but even into the 21st century the College Board Test Scores and other educational measures were generally lower in the South than in the rest of the country. Ironically, whereas the Southern insistence on segregated schools was to prevent the intellectual erosion that racists thought would come with integration, the educational achievement of the schools and population of the less segregated school areas was considerably better. With legal segregation, there were very few high quality universities in the South and no “World Class” schools. However, along with desegregation has been the intellectual and academic improvement of the Southern Schools and the South began to have, for the first time in America, some educational institutions that were on a par with the rest of the country. The South paid a heavy price for segregation and insularity.
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Charles Bernard Rangel is an American politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York from 1971 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House of Representatives at the time of his retirement, serving continuously since 1971. As its most senior member, he was also the Dean of New York's congressional delegation. Rangel was the first African-American Chair of the influential House Ways and Means Committee. He is also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
